GRGR(4) kenosha kid

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

DudiousMax at aol.com wrote:

> Yo Dude,
>               Well there is a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff in GR.
> That's what makes it so, well, encyclopedic.  There's stuff about the Church,
> and about other writers, and about the intelligence community.  There's stuff
> about music and musicians, and there's stuff about politics and politicians.
> There is remarkably little missionary position, vanilla, ordinary sex, for a
> book this long.  I'd a thunk he'd a gotten into it a little bit.  It seems
> like he only wants to show how sex stuff runs off the rails.  There's also
> very little sex reported  in V. or Lot 49.  In Vineland men and women are
> masturbating a lot, and Frenesi (Frenzy) seems very sexual.  But there seems
> very little genuine affection between characters, in ways that are
> recognizable to me, in GR.  Leopold Bloom and Molly may not be faithful to
> each other, but they're affectionate IMHO.  I mean, are we shown Slothrop
> being violated, or is that merely a thought attributed to him, a fear?  We
> are shown the Brigadier's humiliation, Major Dwayne Marvey's surgical
> castration, Geli Tripping's ripping at her own nipples; but no observations
> of Roger and Jessica in intimate moments, being loving.  Why?  I wonder.
>                                     Max
>                                               Thinking out loud again.

sex and history, History and SEX! Thinking out loud, I think Wasteland--"hurry up
please it's time--SL's "T.S. Eliot likes rain.",  I think gimme dat Sy Borg
Fetishism, voyeurism clock reflected hisory--V., I think 'The Lovers' of Remidios
Varo's Narcicism--TCOL49, I think Rocket Solopsism--GR, I think Ford or Freud
from BNW and the appalling dangers of family life--VL, I think I don't know about
M&D.

Agree, disagree, or request more information and don't worry SAM, I'm not "a
stickler for paperwork."
Terrance

Eliot WL (1922)
Zappa Sy Borg (1979)
Varo Lover (1963)
Huxley BNW (1932)